Source: HRW
Children and families who have been seeking asylum in the U.S. have ended up being exposed to more violence, illness and trauma in the process as many wait in camps, are separated from each other, mistreated and many, deported.
A recent Human Rights Watch report found that the US Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program has led many families with children to “wait in unsafe environments in Mexico for many months.”
Children have come out of these situations with trauma and fear, families have reported, and the constant uncertainty has even led to depression for some.
“Families said that after each hearing, they were locked up in very cold, often overcrowded immigration holding cells, with men and teenage boys held separately, sometimes overnight or longer, before US officials returned them to Mexico. Some said they were considering abandoning their asylum cases because their children were afraid of being detained again,” reports Human Rights Watch.
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